Chance Encounter

Do you remember theday we met? Youmight; it was not so long ago to forgeteasy easy— isn’t it oddhow the more television we watch,that our minds, once deeply crevassednow become slick and smooth;water beading, sliding off like a carracing down a highway to more highway.and your mind—it’s calmonly when the gears changein that magical momentpeace while the world rattlesabout you.

Do you remember howon television, we watchedthat daytemperature, hostage countdowns,the national debt, baby counts—all sorts of things rising.While flipping the channels,we noted how the world’s gettingfaster, harder, scarier, deadlier,but also so slick and pretty to watchBut as the windows proliferate,the walls, they grow and grow,SO high and so thick,That we need to punch to embrace,I need to kill to say hello.Because—